Can a crowdsourced mega-forest offset Trump’s climate chaos?

It's an appealing idea, a vast forest to soak up the extra carbon released due to Trump's policies, but it may not be so easy in reality, says Olive Heffernan

One down, only 9,999,999,999 to go

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Since taking up residence in the White House in January, President Donald Trump has made good on his promise to put a wrecking ball through environmental protections.

Notably, the billionaire businessman has signed an executive order to rescind the Clean Power Plan, a policy that would drastically cut emissions from US coal-burning power plants, and has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement that aims to keep planetary warming below 2°C.

The Trump administration has taken many other small steps – approving the Keystone XL pipeline and rolling

Article amended on 21 August 2017

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